Thursday, April 10, 2008
What I had learnt during the UIR Journey
During the UIR journey, i have come in contact with internet resources that i have seen people using but i don't use them myself. Blog is one of them which i don't use and start to use when i started UIR during the vacation. UIR let me know that blogging can be use as a dairy but also can be use to share interests with people whom read the blog and some people can give comments, then people can make friends through blogging.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Reflection
Day 13
I took the test and during the test i find it hard to remember those that i learnt and remember, so this test got lesser than my first test by 1 point and this make me sad a little. I compared my portfolio with the portfolio requirements uploaded in ole and see whether i got anything missing. For today, actually i have not much comments or anything else that i can think of other than those above, so i will stop here for today.
I took the test and during the test i find it hard to remember those that i learnt and remember, so this test got lesser than my first test by 1 point and this make me sad a little. I compared my portfolio with the portfolio requirements uploaded in ole and see whether i got anything missing. For today, actually i have not much comments or anything else that i can think of other than those above, so i will stop here for today.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Reflections
Day 12
I presented about what i wrote for Wiki yesterday. I gave a short brief of my introduction, my summary of the resource that i use which is the news article from http://www.crime-research.org/news/17.03.2008/3252/ about businesses have to pay for funding a e-crime ( electronic crime or cybercrime) unit to help to fight against cybercrimes and the brief evaluation about the main website http://www.crime-research.org/ like is the website up-to-date or is the website user-friendly or is the website easy to understand. I personally feel that there is a need to set up a anti-cybercrime unit to fight against cybercrimes to make the internet a better place to surf and this will be a long-term basis, so there will be a need to ask for fundings from the industry as the government do not just have to focus on one matter but many other matters to attend to.
I also discuss about whether it is ethical to use a fake identity or take on someone's identity and how i apply ethical considerations. In my point of views, taking others' identities and use will cause problems for the ones' whom identities are being used and it is illegal. I also feel that when applying for services like discussion forums, blogs, e-mail and other services that need to use our private details, we should not disclose our private details when applying for these kinds of services.
Day 11
I studied for the test which will be held on day 13 (April 9). The topics that i need to were lecture 6 - 10 that were about evaluating internet resources which have problems of internet information, types of evaluation criteria, evaluation and comparsion of web services and evaluation of differnet internet resources. Out of these 4 parts, i feel that problems of internet information and the types of evaluation criteria were easier to understand.
I presented about what i wrote for Wiki yesterday. I gave a short brief of my introduction, my summary of the resource that i use which is the news article from http://www.crime-research.org/news/17.03.2008/3252/ about businesses have to pay for funding a e-crime ( electronic crime or cybercrime) unit to help to fight against cybercrimes and the brief evaluation about the main website http://www.crime-research.org/ like is the website up-to-date or is the website user-friendly or is the website easy to understand. I personally feel that there is a need to set up a anti-cybercrime unit to fight against cybercrimes to make the internet a better place to surf and this will be a long-term basis, so there will be a need to ask for fundings from the industry as the government do not just have to focus on one matter but many other matters to attend to.
I also discuss about whether it is ethical to use a fake identity or take on someone's identity and how i apply ethical considerations. In my point of views, taking others' identities and use will cause problems for the ones' whom identities are being used and it is illegal. I also feel that when applying for services like discussion forums, blogs, e-mail and other services that need to use our private details, we should not disclose our private details when applying for these kinds of services.
Day 11
I studied for the test which will be held on day 13 (April 9). The topics that i need to were lecture 6 - 10 that were about evaluating internet resources which have problems of internet information, types of evaluation criteria, evaluation and comparsion of web services and evaluation of differnet internet resources. Out of these 4 parts, i feel that problems of internet information and the types of evaluation criteria were easier to understand.
Reflections
Day 10
I have to evaluate about youtube by forming groups to discuss and gave points and views about youtube and what will youtube become as the future comes. My group gave views like youtube allows chatting by giving comments when watching the videos which helps in making friends and youtube allows users to subscribe to a certain video which can know about the updates of the video when it is being updated by the author, these were 2 of the views that make youtube popular.
I personally feel that youtube in the future may have functions like chatting live and watching videos at the same time or users have video comments which is like when users give comments, rather than typing out words users can also record their comments in videos and upload to the comments section.
Day 9
I write out where i want to travel to for my dream holiday and i choose China as i had heard from many people and news about the country, so i am very curious about what people said about the country. There were many legends and myths being told and were in the country and i am interested in legends and myths especially the ones in China, so that is one of my purpose going there.
For friendster vs facebook, i list the one strength and weakness for each and also gave my opinion about what i think about the whether friendster or facebook can replace face to face social interaction. In my overall view, i think friendster or facebook cannot replace face to face social interaction as friendster and facebook are just websites and will be out dated as the time goes.
I have to evaluate about youtube by forming groups to discuss and gave points and views about youtube and what will youtube become as the future comes. My group gave views like youtube allows chatting by giving comments when watching the videos which helps in making friends and youtube allows users to subscribe to a certain video which can know about the updates of the video when it is being updated by the author, these were 2 of the views that make youtube popular.
I personally feel that youtube in the future may have functions like chatting live and watching videos at the same time or users have video comments which is like when users give comments, rather than typing out words users can also record their comments in videos and upload to the comments section.
Day 9
I write out where i want to travel to for my dream holiday and i choose China as i had heard from many people and news about the country, so i am very curious about what people said about the country. There were many legends and myths being told and were in the country and i am interested in legends and myths especially the ones in China, so that is one of my purpose going there.
For friendster vs facebook, i list the one strength and weakness for each and also gave my opinion about what i think about the whether friendster or facebook can replace face to face social interaction. In my overall view, i think friendster or facebook cannot replace face to face social interaction as friendster and facebook are just websites and will be out dated as the time goes.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Friendster VS Facebook
Friendster and Facebook are social network services which allows users to register and make friends from all over the world.
Weakness
Friendster: the usability of friendster is not good in posting and often hangs.
Facebook: the usability of facebook is bad as there are too much stuff on the website.
Strength
Friendster: the website's accessibility is good.
Facebook: the website's content can let users interact with others and make friends easily.
In my opinion, Friendster and Facebook cannot replace face to face social interaction as we won't know the person's character that he/she is that we know in friendster or facebook and we might get into troubles.
Weakness
Friendster: the usability of friendster is not good in posting and often hangs.
Facebook: the usability of facebook is bad as there are too much stuff on the website.
Strength
Friendster: the website's accessibility is good.
Facebook: the website's content can let users interact with others and make friends easily.
In my opinion, Friendster and Facebook cannot replace face to face social interaction as we won't know the person's character that he/she is that we know in friendster or facebook and we might get into troubles.
My Dream Holiday - China
My dream holiday is to travel to China for a 3-4 weeks holiday. It has been my dream since my secondary school time to travel around China and travel to the famous places for sightseeing. Two of the famous that i really want to sightsee is The Great Wall and West Lake as i had heard many things about them on tv, news and from other people. Below are some nice sightseeing images of places in China that i got from www.travelchinaguide.com.
Great Wall of China
Great Wall of China
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
West Lake
The website give me a whole lot of information about China like cities' guides on the history of the cities, what to attractions to expect and when will be the best time to go to the cities, it also listed the top attractions that most people will go, let users to check on the hotels for accomdations, train search for users to check which train will be going to their destinated places and forum for users to ask for help. This helps a lot as i do not know much places to visit, so this website give me information on such places.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Reflections
Day 8
Today the test is not so difficult but i can't remember some parts so my result wasn't so good but it wasn't too bad. I was doing one part of practical 7 which was doing evaluation practices, revising lecture 6 - 10 and i was played some games which are related to internet (crossword puzzles and quiz). Another part of practical 7 was to form groups of 3-4 people and evaluate this website called http://www.talkingcock.com/ which is a website talking about stuffs happening in singapore and there were 3 roles and my group took the foreigners role and say out our opinion as foreigners. My group also debated with other 2 groups. In my point of view, i feel that talkingcock.com can be taken as a humour website to entertain not just singaporeans but other people whom visit the website.
Day 7
It was e-learning day and revision day (have to study for test tomorrow, lecture 1 to lecture 5), so there was no lesson today. For e-learning, i have to answer 2 questions about how internet had enriched my academic life and comment about advocacy websites whether there is a need for advocacy in the school's discussion forum, so i talked how i get in contact with internet and the internet resource that helped me a lot when doing research for projects. I also give comments to one of my fellow classmate about his answer in the forum.
Today the test is not so difficult but i can't remember some parts so my result wasn't so good but it wasn't too bad. I was doing one part of practical 7 which was doing evaluation practices, revising lecture 6 - 10 and i was played some games which are related to internet (crossword puzzles and quiz). Another part of practical 7 was to form groups of 3-4 people and evaluate this website called http://www.talkingcock.com/ which is a website talking about stuffs happening in singapore and there were 3 roles and my group took the foreigners role and say out our opinion as foreigners. My group also debated with other 2 groups. In my point of view, i feel that talkingcock.com can be taken as a humour website to entertain not just singaporeans but other people whom visit the website.
Day 7
It was e-learning day and revision day (have to study for test tomorrow, lecture 1 to lecture 5), so there was no lesson today. For e-learning, i have to answer 2 questions about how internet had enriched my academic life and comment about advocacy websites whether there is a need for advocacy in the school's discussion forum, so i talked how i get in contact with internet and the internet resource that helped me a lot when doing research for projects. I also give comments to one of my fellow classmate about his answer in the forum.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Reflection
Day 6
I learnt the lecture about what is evaluating internet resources and what are the criteria to take note of when we evaluate the internet resources. Some of the criterias that i can take note of when evaluating are:-
Purpose: whether the website has stated clearly the aim and objectives of the website.
Coverage: what types of materials are covered in the website, does the website cover wide range of information, whether there are any time limitations for certain periods for the website and what audience does the website want to target at and whether the website satisfy the needs of the audience.
Accuracy: checking for any biasness and any errors like grammar, spelling and typograhy in the website.
Currency: whether the website's information are up-to-date, how frequent the updates are done and do the website do any maintainance.
Accessibility: is the speed connection of the website fast to retrieve information and check the reliability of the website and is the website stable.
Usability: whether the website is easy to use, user-friendly, navigating freely, search facilities functionality and got any support for the website.
I feel that all these criteria are helpful as it helped me in my evaluation of the internet resource.
I learnt the lecture about what is evaluating internet resources and what are the criteria to take note of when we evaluate the internet resources. Some of the criterias that i can take note of when evaluating are:-
Purpose: whether the website has stated clearly the aim and objectives of the website.
Coverage: what types of materials are covered in the website, does the website cover wide range of information, whether there are any time limitations for certain periods for the website and what audience does the website want to target at and whether the website satisfy the needs of the audience.
Accuracy: checking for any biasness and any errors like grammar, spelling and typograhy in the website.
Currency: whether the website's information are up-to-date, how frequent the updates are done and do the website do any maintainance.
Accessibility: is the speed connection of the website fast to retrieve information and check the reliability of the website and is the website stable.
Usability: whether the website is easy to use, user-friendly, navigating freely, search facilities functionality and got any support for the website.
I feel that all these criteria are helpful as it helped me in my evaluation of the internet resource.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Reflection
Day 5
Today, i continue on doing practical 4 and 5. I added comments on the search engine(Google), meta search engine(MetaCrawler) and subject directory(Google Directory) on what the results returned. I also compare and evaluate the 3 search facilities and from this i know that for search engine, the searching capability is high as it searched through its databases for results and the results are wide in range so i can have many choices. Meta search engine is searching through other search engines' databases, so the searching capability does not quite suit my needs for results. Subject directory is created and maintained by human professionals, so the links for websites are lesser than search engine and therefore the searching capability is not suitable for me as it is hard to get my results.
Overall, i choose search engine as it suits my needs for results searching and it is the most common used search facility nowadays.
Today, i continue on doing practical 4 and 5. I added comments on the search engine(Google), meta search engine(MetaCrawler) and subject directory(Google Directory) on what the results returned. I also compare and evaluate the 3 search facilities and from this i know that for search engine, the searching capability is high as it searched through its databases for results and the results are wide in range so i can have many choices. Meta search engine is searching through other search engines' databases, so the searching capability does not quite suit my needs for results. Subject directory is created and maintained by human professionals, so the links for websites are lesser than search engine and therefore the searching capability is not suitable for me as it is hard to get my results.
Overall, i choose search engine as it suits my needs for results searching and it is the most common used search facility nowadays.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Reflection
Day 4
Today, i was taught about how to use keywords and booleans to search more accurately on the internet facilities. There were many different types of facilities in the world wide web like search engines (googles and yahoo), meta search engines(metacrawler), subject directories(google directory and yahoo directory) and databases. I also learnt that search engines are most commonly used in the internet and it works by using spiders or crawlers to look to the information that we need. Google and Yahoo search engines use their own servers' databases in the internet to look for information while meta search engines like MetaCrawler uses other search engines' servers' databases in the internet inclusive of Google and Yahoo to look for information, as for subject directories like google directory, it search the information through different categories.
When i compare the 3 internet facilities by entering the same search phrase and i found that search engines(google) returned the most hits while meta search engines(metacrawler) and subject directories(google directory) returned the least hits.
Links i found today:
Using Google search engine:
http://www.csialliance.org/home/
Using MetaCrawler meta search engine:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm
Using Google Directory:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm
(This is the same link as the above that is the most relevant to my topic as the rest of the results that were returned not relevant.)
Today, i was taught about how to use keywords and booleans to search more accurately on the internet facilities. There were many different types of facilities in the world wide web like search engines (googles and yahoo), meta search engines(metacrawler), subject directories(google directory and yahoo directory) and databases. I also learnt that search engines are most commonly used in the internet and it works by using spiders or crawlers to look to the information that we need. Google and Yahoo search engines use their own servers' databases in the internet to look for information while meta search engines like MetaCrawler uses other search engines' servers' databases in the internet inclusive of Google and Yahoo to look for information, as for subject directories like google directory, it search the information through different categories.
When i compare the 3 internet facilities by entering the same search phrase and i found that search engines(google) returned the most hits while meta search engines(metacrawler) and subject directories(google directory) returned the least hits.
Links i found today:
Using Google search engine:
http://www.csialliance.org/home/
Using MetaCrawler meta search engine:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm
Using Google Directory:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm
(This is the same link as the above that is the most relevant to my topic as the rest of the results that were returned not relevant.)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Reflection
Day 3
We refresh our memories of some parts of the lesson we learnt yesterday during lecture, as for practical, i had done a E-Shopping Spree post which i want to buy earlier on in my blog, study the resources that i found during the last 2 days and state the purpose and reason of 2 of the resources i found. I took the screenshot of the post that i posted in the forum yesterday and added 3 site feeds of my classmates' blogs. I learnt that when i click on the site feeds of my classmates's and i will know the updates whenever they update their blogs.
Resource 1: http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
Purpose of resource : Personal
Reasons: This website is created and maintain by the author himself. The site is about information security which is related to computer crime. The author himself is also an expert in the line of information security as he is working as an independent security consultant.
Resource 2: http://www.crime-research.org/
Purpose of resource : Information and News
Reasons: This website provides true and accurate information about computer crimes and computer crime is the major topic in the website. The site also has provide news, events and articles about computer crimes.
We refresh our memories of some parts of the lesson we learnt yesterday during lecture, as for practical, i had done a E-Shopping Spree post which i want to buy earlier on in my blog, study the resources that i found during the last 2 days and state the purpose and reason of 2 of the resources i found. I took the screenshot of the post that i posted in the forum yesterday and added 3 site feeds of my classmates' blogs. I learnt that when i click on the site feeds of my classmates's and i will know the updates whenever they update their blogs.
Resource 1: http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
Purpose of resource : Personal
Reasons: This website is created and maintain by the author himself. The site is about information security which is related to computer crime. The author himself is also an expert in the line of information security as he is working as an independent security consultant.
Resource 2: http://www.crime-research.org/
Purpose of resource : Information and News
Reasons: This website provides true and accurate information about computer crimes and computer crime is the major topic in the website. The site also has provide news, events and articles about computer crimes.
E-Shopping Spree
JVC SX-XD33 System - Home Theatre Speaker System
Price: S$378.00
Where to get: http://www.e-bay.com.sg/
Comments:
I want to buy this system for my room when i play movies or games, so i can feel the effects. The standing speakers is sleek in design and the speakers won't take up too much of my room's space.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Reflections
What i have done for these 2 days?
Day 2
What i learnt to today is what are the categories of internet like newspaper site, organizational sites, personal sites and subject-based sites and descriptions and the examples of the categories. For practical, i had to find 2 websites that are related to my topic and also learnt to do the bibliography and creating my first blog and updating the blog.
Links found for today:
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/:
This website is a personal website regarding information security in the internet, the author of the website is also an expert in this area as a consultant in Independent Security.
http://www.crime-research.org/:
This website is an organizational website regarding computer crimes with news articles, events and other related links to other websites.(One of same website as March 24)
Links i find on Day 1:
http://forum.crime-research.org/:
This discussion forum is for people to discuss computer crimes like internet frauds, internet scams, hacking, online child porn and credit card fraud.
http://www.lexisnexis.com/risksolutions/conference/docs/cyber.pdf:
This the part where i took the longest time to find. This journal is introducing about computer crimes, some cases that happened and strategy to deal with the computer crimes committed.
http://www.crime-research.org/:
This website has articles and news for people researching on computer crimes.
Day 2
What i learnt to today is what are the categories of internet like newspaper site, organizational sites, personal sites and subject-based sites and descriptions and the examples of the categories. For practical, i had to find 2 websites that are related to my topic and also learnt to do the bibliography and creating my first blog and updating the blog.
Links found for today:
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/:
This website is a personal website regarding information security in the internet, the author of the website is also an expert in this area as a consultant in Independent Security.
http://www.crime-research.org/:
This website is an organizational website regarding computer crimes with news articles, events and other related links to other websites.(One of same website as March 24)
Day 1
I learnt about the basic knowledge about Using Internet as a Research Tool, what will be done throughout the course, chose topic to research on and doing practical on find resources for discussion forum, electronic journal and the website related to my research topic. Discussion forum and website related to my research topic is easy to find but finding the electronic journal which is related to my topic is quite difficult as i had to keep on searching for roughly about 45 minutes to find and decide on my final decision for the electronic journal.Links i find on Day 1:
http://forum.crime-research.org/:
This discussion forum is for people to discuss computer crimes like internet frauds, internet scams, hacking, online child porn and credit card fraud.
http://www.lexisnexis.com/risksolutions/conference/docs/cyber.pdf:
This the part where i took the longest time to find. This journal is introducing about computer crimes, some cases that happened and strategy to deal with the computer crimes committed.
http://www.crime-research.org/:
This website has articles and news for people researching on computer crimes.
Introduction
Hi! This is my first blog and my first time creating a blog, so it maybe boring, please bear with it.
Some introduction about myself, my name is Lian Dai, currently i am a year 2 student studying in Temasek Polytechnic, the course i am in is Diploma in Internet and Multimedia Development (IND) now known as Diploma in Interactive Media Informatics (IMI).
Some introduction about myself, my name is Lian Dai, currently i am a year 2 student studying in Temasek Polytechnic, the course i am in is Diploma in Internet and Multimedia Development (IND) now known as Diploma in Interactive Media Informatics (IMI).
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